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| ANDREA BECHERT SCENIC DESIGNER / SCENOGRAPHER cell: 650-533-6059 email: Andrea@ScorpionDesigns.net |
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S E L E C T E D D E S I G N E X P E R I E N C E American Musical Theatre of San Jose West Side Story (dir. Stephen Bourneuf), Damn Yankees (dir. Dianna Shuster), The Big Bang (dir. Christopher Scott), and Christmas Dreamland (dir. Tim Bair) {World Premiere} TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, CA) 19 productions including Dessa Rose {West Coast premiere}, Dolly West's Kitchen {American Premiere}, The Elephant Man, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare in Hollywood (dir. Robert Kelley), Crowns {Mountain View & San Francisco productions} (dir. Tony Haney), Bat Boy {Palo Alto & San Francisco productions} (dir. Linda Goodrich), Book of Days, Over the River and Through the Woods, Floyd Collins, Talley’s Folly, (dir. Robert Kelley), Night of the Iguana (dir. Ken Kelleher), Voir Dire, Legacy Codes {world premiere} (dir. Amy Gonzalez), Fences (dir. Harry Elam), Oo-Bla-Dee (dir. Shirley Jo Finney), Be Aggressive (dir. Wendy Goldberg), All My Sons (dir. Kent Nicholson), Where’s William (touring children’s show). Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sundiata {world premiere} (dir. Coleman Domingo) Colorado Shakespeare Festival Macbeth, All's Well that Ends Well (dir. Lynne Collins), The Three Musketeers (dir. Carolyn Howarth), Love's Labours Lost (dir. Gavin Cameron-Webb), Around the World in 80 Days (dir. Philip Sneed) The Starlight Theatre (Illinois) Jonah {World premiere}, The Wiz, Little Shop of Horrors, Ragtime, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Last Easter {Midwest premiere} (dir. Michael Webb) Marin Theatre Company Cowgirls, Avenue X, Syncopation (dir. Eleanor Reissa), The Real Thing (dir. Lee Sankowich) The Wildwood Festival (Little Rock, AR) Lucia di Lammermoor, The Mikado, Pinocchio {set & costume design}, The Barber of Seville (dir. Terry Sneed) The Cleveland Playhouse A Grand Night for Singing (dir. Loretta Greco) Unsung Cole (dir. Scott Kanoff) {Scenic & Lighting design} Songs the Harrigans Sang (dir. Bill Hoffman), The Lesson (dir. Jonathan Kronenberger) {Scenic, Costume & Lighting design} The Lower Rooms (dir.Victoria Pero) 29th Street Theatre (NYC) Pick Up Axe {New York Premiere} (dir. Jim Abar) Judith Anderson Theatre (NYC) Top Girls (dir. April Shawhan) Harold Clurman Theatre (NYC) Top Girls (dir. April Shawhan) The Stardust Casino (Las Vegas) A Stardust Christmas, 2003 Christmas concert starring John Brack and Simon Estes at the Stardust Hotel & Casino. Opera San Jose The Magic Flute (dir. Michael McConnell) The Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA) 3F, 4F {World Premiere} (dir. Pam MacKinnon) Theatrical Arts International Misery (dir.Joseph Henson) Center Repertory Theatre (Walnut Creek, CA) Cowgirls (dir. Eleanor Reissa), Don’t Dress for Dinner, Collected Stories (dir. Gillian Eaton), Amy’s View (dir. David Hay) San Jose Children’s Musical Theatre Into the Woods, Annie, Bugsy Malone, Footloose (dir. Kevin Hauge). Cabrillo Stage (Aptos, CA) West Side Story (dir. Dustin Leonard), Annie Get Your Gun (dir. John McCluggage) The Monomoy Theatre (Cape Cod, MA) 15 productions including Peter Pan, Lion in Winter, The King and I, Dancing at Lughnasa, Annie Get Your Gun, The Music Man, and Carousel. The Hartt School (Hartford, CT) 17 productions including world premiere of Battleship Potemkin, Brigadoon, Guys & Dolls, Carmen, Turn of the Screw, Die Fledermaus, and Romeo & Juliet. Peninsula Youth Theatre (Mountain View, CA) 34 productions, including Peter Pan, All Shook Up, Charlotte's Web, Aladdin, Cinderella, Once on this Island, Grease, The Music Man, Guys & Dolls, Oliver!, The Wiz, Annie, Sound of Music, Les Miserables, Suessical, The Wizard of Oz, Once Upon a Mattress, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Beauty & the Beast, Fiddler on the Roof and Sweet Charity. Northern Stage Company (Milwaukee, WI) Cinderella (dir. Richard Mangan) Foothill Theatre Company (Nevada City, CA) Woody Guthrie's American Song (dir. Lynne Collins), When It Goes Haywire {World Premiere} (dir. Carolyn Howarth), The Nerd (dir. Nancy Carlin), Long Shadow {World Premiere}, O'Carolan's Farewell to Music (dir. Peter Glazer) Diablo Light Opera Company (Walnut Creek, CA) Sweeney Todd (dir. Todd Ewing), Oklahoma! (dir. Gloria Trombley), La Cage aux Folles (dir. SueEllen Nelsen) Contra Costa Musical Theatre (Walnut Creek, CA) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.(dir. Dan Uroff) Solo Opera (Concord, CA) The Old Maid and the Thief, A Hand of Bridge (dir. Sylvia Amorino) The Willows Theatre (Concord, CA) 10 productions, including world premiere of Mountain Days, Brimstone, Jekyll & Hyde, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, and Rags. Kaiser Permanente Education Theatre Program Touring productions in Northern and Southern California regions including Zip’s Great Day, Nightmare on Puberty Street, and The Best Me. Douglas Morrison Theatre (Hayward, CA) 12 productions, including Sylvia, Man of La Mancha, Oliver!, Art, Boys from Syracuse, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Auntie Mame. Starstruck Theatre Peter Pan (dir. Lori Stokes) Teatro Vision (San Jose, CA) Harvest Moon (dir. Amy Gonzalez) Solano College Theatre (Suisun, CA) 14 productions, including Bat Boy (current project),Angels in America, Sound of Music, Amadeus, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweeney Todd, Seussical, Cabaret, A Lion in Winter, and The Laramie Project Ohio University Mad Forest (dir. William Fisher) {Scenic, Costume & Projection design} A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Robert Winters), A Midsummer Nights Dream (dir. Henson Keyes) Other theatres designed for include: San Jose Stage Company, Peninsula Center Stage, Theatre Rhinoceros, Canton Players Guild, Bayfront Theatre, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, Palo Alto Players, Town Hall Players, Shotgun Players, CitiArts Theatre, Busbarn Theatre Company, OperaSmarts Hayward Little Theatre, Napa Valley College Theatre, Starstruck Theatre, and Woodminster Theatre. ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGNER: Salzburg Festspielhaus (Austria) Boris Godunov (designer/director - Herbert Wernicke) Jewish Repertory Theatre (NYC) Edith Stein (designer - Ursula Belden) American Place Theatre (NYC) Hal Prince Musical Theatre Workshops (designer - Ursula Belden) A W A R D S & H O N O R S 2 0 0 7 Arty Award nomination - Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Bat Boy Elly Award for Scenic Design of Beauty & the Beast, & nomination for Scenic Design or Sweeney Todd 2 0 0 6 Elly Award nominations for Scenic Design of Sweeney Todd and Beauty & the Beast Arty Award - Best Scenic Design of a Drama: Fences Arty Award - Best Scenic Design of a Youth Musical: Beauty & the Beast Arty Award nominations - Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Beauty & the Beast, Sweeney Todd, and Suessical. 2 0 0 5 Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award nomination - Outstanding Scenic Design - Crowns Dean Goodman Choice Award for Scenic Design of Beauty & the Beast Dean Goodman Choice Award for Scenic Design of Dolly West's Kitchen Elly Award nomination for Scenic Design of Cabaret Elly Award nomination for Scenic Design of Seussical Elly Award nomination for Scenic Design of Fences 2 0 0 4 Dean Goodman Choice Award for Scenic Design of All My Sons Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award nomination - Outstanding Scenic Design - Bat Boy Elly Award for Scenic Design of Lion in Winter Arty Award for Scenic Design of Lion in Winter 2 0 0 3 Inland Theatre Award for Scenic Design of Sweeney Todd Arty Award for Scenic Design of The Sound of Music Elly Award for Scenic Design of The Sound of Music Elly Award nomination for Scenic Design of Amadeus 2 0 0 2 Dean Goodman Choice Award for Scenic Design of A Streetcar Named Desire Dean Goodman Choice Award for Scenic Design of Over the River and Through the Woods Elly Award nomination for Scenic Design of Harvey 2 0 0 1 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award - Outstanding Scenic Design - Jekyll & Hyde Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award Nomination - Outstanding Scenic Design - Floyd Collins Dean Goodman Choice Award for Scenic Design of Fences Dean Goodman Choice Award for Scenic Design of Don’t Dress for Dinner 2 0 0 0 Shellie Award - Outstanding Scenic Design for Oklahoma! Dean Goodman Choice Award for Scenic Design of Angels in America Arty Award for Scenic Design of Angels in America 1 9 9 9 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award - Outstanding Set Design for a Drama - Night of the Iguana Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award - Outstanding Set Design for a Musical - Brimstone Dean Goodman Choice Award (formerly DramaLogue) for Scenic Design of Night of the Iguana 1 9 9 5 Selected Exhibitor at the Prague Quadrennial for Scenic & Costume Designs of Mad Forest (recent student works exhibit) 1 9 9 4 - Selected Exhibitor at the New York Portfolio Review (Hosted by Ming Cho Lee) Plus several awards in the University level circuit from 1987 - 1993 T E A C H I N G & G U E S T A R T I S T E X P E R I E N C E Ohio University: Visiting Faculty Winter and Spring Quarters, 2008 (replacing Ursula Belden, Head of Production Design & Technology for the School of Theatre) Classes taught: beginning, intermediate, and advanced graduate scenic design, advanced undergraduate scenic design, graduate & undergraduate level model making, graduate level drafting, scenic painting for the stage, advanced scenery techniques, practical design study. Created and tailored syllabi for aforementioned classes. Mentored graduate and undergraduate scenic designers, and oversaw realized design projects. Recruited future design candidates at the URTA auditions. Also served as guest scenic artist on the spring production of "Knock Me A Kiss", designed by Ursula Belden. Ohio University: Visiting Faculty April of 2007 Served as guest scenic artist for the world premiere of Happy Slap, designed by Ursula Belden. Worked with the student charge artist to mix up colours and work on painting samples and techniques for each show. Demonstrated and taught several scenic techniques, including a cement floor and walls, brick, cinderblock, aged metal and tin, peeling paint, and distressed glass windows. Ohio University: Visiting Faculty January & February of 2007 Served as guest scenic artist for The Sons of Ulster and Conference of the Birds, both were graduate student's mainstage designs. Worked with the student charge artist to mix up colours and work on painting samples and techniques for each show. Demonstrated and taught several scenic techniques, including a very heavy textured and carved floor using Celotex as well as applied texture, naturally aged woods, air spraying, and a marble faux finish master class. Ohio University: Visiting Faculty Fall of 2006 Served as guest charge scenic artist for Time of Your Life and The Comedy of Errors, both graduate student's mainstage designs. Worked with the student charge artist from each production to mix up colours and work on painting samples and techniques for each show. Demonstrated and taught several scenic techniques, including a low relief textured floor, drop construction, layout, cartooning and drop painting, aged iron & steel, glass, mylar applique, and sign painting. Ohio University: Visiting Faculty January & February of 2006 Served as guest charge scenic artist for Cider House Rules and The Fourth Sister, both graduate student's mainstage designs. Worked with the student charge artist from each production to mix up colours and work on painting samples and techniques for each show. Demonstrated and taught several scenic techniques, including a complex parquet floor, several wood finishes and grains, brick, old plaster, tile flooring, corroding metal, and faux finishes on fine furniture. Ohio University: Visiting Faculty Fall of 2005 Served as the charge scenic artist for A Flea In Her Ear, a graduate student’s mainstage design. Taught a variety of scenic painting methods for several different finishes. Lectured in the graduate level scenic design classes, and mentored the students in methods of creating paint elevations, thinking about colour and texture, and overall finish of a scenic design. Peninsula Youth Theatre: Teacher in Mask Making and Scenic Painting 2003 & 2004 Taught youth theatre classes in scenic painting and mask making. Supervised parent crews in scenic painting and props for the past 6 years for productions I have designed. Ohio University: Visiting Faculty & Guest Scenic Designer 2000 Taught graduate level scenic design classes, as well as mentored graduate students during their design process and the realization of their designs on stage. Designed A Streetcar Named Desire and mentored students in design and scenic painting. Served as the charge scenic artist for the production as well, and taught a variety of scenic painting methods. Stanford University: Guest Designer & Lecturer 1998 Taught undergraduate scenic design classes for one quarter, including drafting and model making. Designed one production and collaborated with student designers and crew. Ohio University: Visiting Faculty 1998 Replaced Ursula Belden, Head of the Design Program, for the winter quarter. Taught graduate and undergraduate classes in scenic design and drafting, as well as mentored students in design and scenic painting. American Musical Theatre San Jose: Scenic Painting Master Class 1999 Taught a master class in scenic painting (offered to the public, 25 students) with Pete Kelley, charge artist for American Musical Theatre of San Jose. Ohio University: Guest Scenic Artist & Lecturer 1997 Mentored students in scenic design and scenic painting. Served as the charge scenic artist for a graduate student’s mainstage design, and taught a variety of scenic painting methods and carving techniques. University of Hartford: Guest Scenic Designer & Lecturer 1997- 2001 Designed several productions over 4 school years. Lectured to the School of Theatre regarding the design process for the current production. Mentored technical theatre students in scenic painting, design, and props. Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School: Lecturer, Scenic Designer & Scenic Artist 1996- 2001 Designed several productions over 4 school years. Taught classes in technical theatre and design. Worked with and supervised student crews for the current productions in scenic painting and props. University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee : Guest Scenic Designer 1995 Guest scenic designer of Cinderella. Collaborated with and mentored students in design. E D U C A T I O N Master of Fine Arts in Scenic Design and in Costume Design - Ohio University - 1994 Bachelor of Science in Theatre Design & Technology - Northern Arizona University - 1990 O T H E R D E S I G N W O R K Rebuilding Peninsula Together - Design of Gala Auction Stage - Menlo Park, CA 2005 Cue Productions - Interior renovation & design of Jazz Club - Concord, CA 2003 City of Martinez & Willows Theatre - Design of the John Muir Amphitheatre (1018 seat outdoor theatre) Martinez, CA 2001 New England Garden Show - Facade for Foxhill Garden Club 1996 R E L A T E D S K I L L S Technical drafting, model construction, sculpting (foam and wood), scenic painting, welding & metalwork, carpentry, sewing & soft goods, upholstery, furniture construction & restoration, armor construction, masks, prosthetics, foam construction & casting, millenary work, dyeing & fabric painting, silk screening, , production management, crew supervision, budget control, shop management & safety, PADI certified, and fluent German. R E F E R E N C E S contact information available upon request ROBERT KELLEY Artistic Director, Director, and Founder of TheatreWorks TheatreWorks, Palo Alto - California ALAN RUST Artistic Director of The Monomoy Theatre Head of the Acting Program – The Hartt School, University of Hartford GEORGE MAGUIRE Artistic Director Solano College Theatre PHILIP SNEED Artistic Director Colorado Shakespeare Festival WILLIAM FISHER Head of the School of Theatre Ohio University School of Theatre JOAN ADDLEMAN Production Manager Peninsula Youth Theatre STEVE MANNSHARDT Production Manager & USA Lighting Designer TheatreWorks, Palo Alto – CA ALLISON CONNOR USA Costume Designer ELEANOR REISSA Director & Performer URSULA BELDEN USA Scenic Designer & Head of Design Ohio University School of Theatre PATRICIA “PETE” KELLY Former Charge Scenic Artist American Musical Theatre of San Jose NANCY ENGLE Artistic Director Hayward Little Theatre PAM GRAY USA Lighting Designer GERALD SLATE Hayward Little Theatre Former Technical Director MALCOLM MORRISON Dean of the Hartt School, University of Hartford Professional Director HOLLY COLE Professor of Design & USA Costume Designer Ohio University School of Theatre GEOFFREY R. STONE Harry Kalven, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law The University of Chicago Law School |